Everyday Life as a Building Element of the Documentary Authenticity: about Scholars’ and Film Makers’ Common Paths

• Authors: Štoll Martin

Title variants

CS

Každodennost jako stavební prvek autenticity dokumentárního filmu: o společných cestách vědců a filmových tvůrců

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Everyday life is a natural subject-matter of historians’, philosophers’ and anthropologists’ research as well as a natural content of documentaries. Scholars’ and film-makers’ analytic methods are not identical, however their objectives are similar: to describe and to express what the world is and what it was. The study shows that the results of the research into everyday life can also be applied to the audio-visual material, and even to compact dramatic films and TV works. The author of the text proceeds mainly from Petr Sedlák’s approaches and he innovatively extends the terms “the scenery of everyday life”, introduced by Milena Lenderová, by the term “the props of everyday life”. He substantiates his arguments with three documentaries which are linked together by the theme and time of their origin (late 1960s). The films also represent three different approaches of their authors when working with the environment visualisation and with dynamics, rhythmisation, repetitiveness, and motivisation of their principal characters’ lives. With the films “Ztištění” by Rudolf Adler, “Císařští poddaní” by Jindřich Fairaizl, and “Respice Finem” by Jan Špáta, the author proves that everyday life and mainly its audio-visual presentation is used by documentary-makers as the basic ingredient of credibility, truth-resemblance, and building of their works’ authenticity.

Keywords

EN

Czechoslovak Television; Krátký film Praha; documentary; everyday life; 1960s; Rudolf Adler; Jindřich Fairaizl; Jan Špáta

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 297 - 307

Contributors

author

Štoll Martin